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V.Y. Mudimbe


Born
in Likasi, Belgian Congo
December 08, 1941

Died
April 22, 2025

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Valentin-Yves Mudimbe was a Congolese philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history. Mudimbe was Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of Romance Studies and professor of comparative literature at Duke University and maître de conférences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.

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“Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an “otherâ€� among others.”
V.Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

“I was struck by a shallow figure of speech. . . . that Christianity is the handmaiden of capitalism.”
V.Y. Mudimbe

“Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?”
V.Y. Mudimbe